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Los angeles times reporter joins us live on the phone from tripoli. what's the latest there? >> reporter: it's been a relatively quiet day here in the capital today. earlier this morning just before dawn we just heard some massive explosions and some just intense barrages of anti-aircraft fire, tracer fire in the sky. then today they are, basically, they're having a funeral right now, a mass funeral for people who supposedly died in the coalition air strikes. they say that civilians have died in those air strikes. myself and a bunch of other journalists attempted to go to a hospital where thes...

Call 877-242-usaa. jon: a fox news alert about this new crisis developing in japan, this time in tokyo where fears of radiation contamination from the crippled nuclear plant are now causing folks to hoard food and water. many shelves are empty of basic necessities. no milk, rice, water or toilet paper. meanwhile, two workers trying to

With you about how those people died? >> reporter: i would let the viewers decide that. but, you know, also they say there's been civilian damage to infrastructure. we said, okay, let's go see it. they take us to a port. it's a military port filled with military equipment, filled with anti-aircraft fire. it looked like a legitimate target to me if you're enforcing a no-fly zone. and then we asked, well, how many soldiers died here, how many military persian mel? how many civilians? and they said, thank god, no one died here. to me, i couldn't have thought of a more clean hit on a military targ...

It happened at reagan airport, right? >> unbelievably this was the second time it happened in two years. apparently it happened once before when a guy stepped out of the control tower, we believe -- they -- he forgot to bring his magnetic pass card with him, door was locked, he couldn't get in. they made mention of this on the air traffic recording. listen up. >> is there a reason it's not manned? >> i'm going to take a guess and say that the controller got locked out. i've heard of this happening before. >> first time i've heard it. >> reporter: again, there are procedures in place, jon, as y...

Step down immediately. this comes just days after security forces shott and killed more than 40 antigovernment protestors. over to syria, where thousands are now taking to the streets in that very repressive country, they're defying a deadly government crackdown and demanding regime change as they protest at the funerals of demonstrators killed by police gunfire. reena ninan is live in jerusalem, keeping an eye on it all. >> reporter: jon, this is the biggest protest opposition for president asad since he has taken office. you might call this the graffiti revolution, all the protests started a...